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gnome-terminal package

Garbage in gnome-terminal

Bug #159238 reported by Rimas Kudelis on 2007-11-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #120858: Graphical corruption in gnome-terminal. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When switching active workspaces, windows etc, gnome-terminal frequently displays unacceptable garbage in its terminal widget.

This could be caused by vim (as it's the application I use most in my gnome-terminal sessions), but I don't really think so.

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Rimas Kudelis (rq) wrote on 2007-11-01:

An example Edit (117.0 KiB, image/png)

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Rimas Kudelis (rq) wrote on 2007-11-01:

Another example (same terminal session) Edit (127.6 KiB, image/png)

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Rimas Kudelis (rq) on 2007-11-11

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Norbert Kiesel (nk-iname) wrote on 2007-11-23:

I see that as well, but not directly after a gnome restart. Seems to be related to memory pressure (i.e. happens when I have lots of processes using most of my memory).

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Graeme Geldenhuys (graemeg) wrote on 2007-12-11:

console_3.png Edit (51.1 KiB, image/png)

It's not related to VIM. I get it very often while using Midnight Command in gnome-terminal and viewing (F3 key) text files. Running MC in other terminals like xterm or konsole does not have such issues. I even tried gnome-terminal in a different window manager (FVWM) to rule out the Gnome desktop. gnome-terminal still cause that garbage. Ctrl-L is a quick work-around to get rid of that garage.

See screenshots for how it looks on my system.

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Graeme Geldenhuys (graemeg) wrote on 2007-12-11:

console_1.png Edit (42.4 KiB, image/png)

And here's using 'svn diff' instead of Midnight Commander. I forgot to mention, I'm using Ubuntu 7.10. 7.04 also had this problem. 6.10 worked perfectly.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-12-20:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.